PAKISTAN: Drop That Name

Nations at odds often share with taunting
children and shrewish wives an inspired instinct for the stinging
epithet that penetrates and festers. Arab maps sometimes refer to
Israel as "Jewish Occupied Palestine." Russians in the U.N. call
Nationalist China delegates the "representatives of the Kuomintang."
And for some twelve years since the acrimonious partition of the Indian
subcontinent, the Pakistani press, with considered malice and
conscientious glee, has called India "Bharat" and referred to Indians
as "Bharatis."

Though Indians smoldered, they really could not complain. Bharata was a
legendary Hindu hero...